STEREOTYPE

Before enrolled into university, i had heared people use the above word so often but i could not derive any meaning whenever i heared it.most of the time i became confused and channel surfed to avoid being confused the more.

My entrance into the university gave me more insight on the word and what amounts to it.The word in it simplest terms means judging some one or agroup of persons based on something one has heared or on a personal encounter with a few people from a group.An example could be to say that, northeners are voilent just because you may have heared of voilence in the northen region.
In a much more formal setting,stereotypes can be likened to generalizations or assumptions that people make about the charecteristics of all members of agroup based on an image (often wrong)about what people in that group are like.

After i got the meaning of the above word in realized that in Ghana there are a lot of stereotypes against particular cultures, ethnic groups, religion etc. in the wake of all these, stereotypes our leaders are burnt on preaching unitifying messages to gain a united front to the whole world.
I concluded that,unity in this country can only be possible by laying bare the common stereotypes to the public especially the unforunate ones who do not understand the dangers of the above word and the effects of such stereotypes in order for them to understtand and to serve as catalyst for the unification process.